VAST: Visiting Artist & Scholar Talks

DesertArtLAB is an interdisciplinary environmental arts collaborative co-directed by April Bojorquez and Matt Garcia. Their work promotes Indigenous/Chicanx perspectives on ecological practice, food sovereignty, self-determination, and climate change. DesertArtLAB’s projects activate public space through participatory artworks and support the restoration of desert environments and their foodways through zero irrigation regrowth projects. DesertArtLAB have presented their work nationally and internationally at Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France; The Dom Museum, Vienna, Austria; The Museum of Contemporary Native Art, Santa Fe, NM; the Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, Galería de la Raza, San Francisco, CA, among many others. April and Matt are recipients of the Creative Capital award and were 2021 Mellon Artists in Residence at the Colorado College Fine Arts Center Museum. Bojorquez and Garcia live in Pueblo, Colorado where they work as artists/educators. Bojorquez is an educator at the Chavez Huerta Preparatory Academy and Garcia is an Assistant Professor of Creativity + Practice at Colorado State University Pueblo.